Havelock Ellis Quotes

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Havelock Ellis

Life, Art, Living

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
Havelock Ellis

Jealousy, Love, Alive

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.
Havelock Ellis

Doubt, Sometimes, Means

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
Havelock Ellis

Life, Beautiful, Moving

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
Havelock Ellis

Place, Optimism, Lunatic

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.
Havelock Ellis

Faith, Human, Cherish

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.
Havelock Ellis

Nature, Women, Men

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
Havelock Ellis

Nature, Long, Human

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
Havelock Ellis

Money, Poetry, Thinking

Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Havelock Ellis

Art, Artist, Writes

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
Havelock Ellis

Great, Men, Truly

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
Havelock Ellis

Life, Dreams, Long

When love is suppressed hate takes its place.
Havelock Ellis

Love, Hate, Place

The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.
Havelock Ellis

Work, Home, Husband

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
Havelock Ellis

Success, Different, Failures

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
Havelock Ellis

Life, Death, Pain

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
Havelock Ellis

Beauty, Absence, Flaw

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
Havelock Ellis

Children, Parents, Themselves

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
Havelock Ellis

Romantic, Music, Prayer

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Havelock Ellis

Beliefs, Swallow, Digest

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.
Havelock Ellis

Philosophy, Goal, Matters

'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
Havelock Ellis

Work, Women, Power

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
Havelock Ellis

Life, May, Full

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.
Havelock Ellis

Human, Whether, Task

The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.
Havelock Ellis

Sometimes, Valuable, Product

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Psychologist

Born: February 2, 1859

Died: July 8, 1939

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